Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>:
>
> I've brought this up in the past on debian-devel, but didn't follow
> through at the time. We have lots of X-based terminal programs (xterm,
> rxvt, gnome-terminal, konsole, ...) which Provide:
> x-terminal-emulator. That's great and useful, but the command line
> interfaces to some of those have shifted over time and there is little
> remaining consistency. For programs like Seyon that want to use one of
> these terminal programs, there is no simple way to specify options
> such as the name to use for its window, and that has been the cause of
> several bugs over the years (#315945, #398508, #502001).
>
> I want to fix this, but do it right. I can see some options here:
>
> 1. Force all seyon users to install xterm by using a direct
> dependency on *just* xterm and call it instead of
> x-terminal-emulator
>
> 2. Work out a standard set of command line options that must be
> supported by each package that Provides: x-terminal-emulator
>
> 3. Write a wrapper script to deal with each possible terminal program
> and map from a standard set of options to the specific options for
> that program.
>
> Ideally, I'd like us to do a combination of #2 and #3: work out the
Just curious, but why 2 & 3? Why isn't 1 considered the simplest
solution? xterm is ca. 300k. What Seyon users can't afford 300k disk
space or its RSS?
vi's installed on every *nix box on the planet. Why shouldn't xterm
be on every X install on the planet? My /usr/bin/vim.basic is 1.3 Mb.
1 seems a far more robust solution to me.
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